It was a network problem in the computing labs. Small packets got through OK. Continuous streams of large packets (printing, downloads) got whacked during periods of high load.
Not sure, but suspect network card duplex settings.
Sure makes the printing service look bad!
-Rick
Rick Cochran wrote:
I have started to have serious problems with Windows XP LPR print jobs getting mangled.
Part of the print job prints OK, but then I get a fragment of a page and then a PostScript error.
Printing the same job a little later from the same workstation works fine.
It's closely related with periods of high usage (and a server load average of about 8).
I'm guessing that the PostScript is getting truncated somewhere.
A possible explanation might be that the server spool partition was filling up, but our monitoring system detects no such thing. Also, no errors of this kind in the LPRng log.
Another possibility is that network speed is slowing down to the point that something is timing out at either the client or server end. I don't find any suspicious-looking timeouts in my LPRng configuration (all are the defaults), and I wouldn't know where to look at the WinXP end.
A final possibility is that the printer is timing out. They're mostly Xeros 4400's and I can't find any timeout parameter. However, this problem started when we switched from Windows 98 with Samba to Windows XP with LPR.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Rick
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